Over 60 Spitfires found buried in Myanmar (Burma)

[Peter Laidler]

I heard that too. About time someone had the balls to tell the clown the truth. Buried Spitfires........... what a load of pure crap! Looks like I'll be keeping my money. But don't be disappointed lads as to recompense, I will make a generous donation behind the bar at the Armourers 63A Apprentices reunion at Carlisle this Autumn and maybe at the Armourers Dinner in London in September

[PrinzEugen]

Story is now online: BBC News - Archaeologists believe no Spitfires buried in Burma

[Patrick Chadwick]

No! All of you! Of course it´s true. Just yesterday I saw elves in my backyard. And Father Christmas brought me a cavalry sabre I´d always wanted. So there! PS AND ... I got them all in the black at 100 metres with my short *rsed Werder recently. These are all things you´ve gotta believe, `cos some of them are true.

Congratulations on the sabre and the elves! Pity about the Werder

And this is an open-minded site. You can write arse, but you can't write ***. The posterior section of the body is arse in English. An *** is an animal, not a part of the body. It's true what they say: some people can't tell their arse from their elbow! - Or at least, the software can't!

[jmoore]

...The posterior section of the body is arse in English. An *** is an animal, not a part of the body. It's true what they say: some people can't tell their arse from their elbow!...

Possibly the most useful info in this thread to date...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I will make a generous donation behind the bar at the Armourers 63A Apprentices reunion at Carlisle this Autumn and maybe at the Armourers Dinner in London in September

Well some good came of it. Well done!

[jmoore]

There's British fighters buried in my workshop!

See?:





I'm sure the rest of them is in there somewhere...

(In actual fact these bits were uncovered today whilst building some new shelving.)

Even one NOS never installed forging mixed in with some unfinished new production (circa 1998 or so) attach brackets.


There should be some bulkhead form block patterns around here somewhere. Call the excavators!

ETA: But first and most importantly: Send lots of money! C/O Milsurps.com would be fine.

[browningautorifle]

So...in theory...we should be able to take DNA and clone from these parts.

[bigduke6]

Am sure the Time Team would of done a beter job at finding them

[darwinmauser]

Do a google images search " f111 buried ipswich "

Some planes that were buried, probably quite a few $ just as scrap value but government in it's wisdom is preserving them for future generations.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Jmoore Label that stuff properly or it will end up at the scrap yard one day. Out the back window of my office is a scrap proccessor. I had to start closing the blinds after I saw them grapple an old Farmall tractor into the transport truck. I'm afraid I will see an old Mustang ,T bird or 55 Chevy and throw myself on top of it and be crushed right along with it.